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  Re: Diffuse==0 on edges of step functions in isosurfaces  
From: Chris Huff
Date: 19 Sep 2000 08:21:56
Message: <chrishuff-D7A23C.07235719092000@news.povray.org>

<Jer### [at] enstfr> wrote:

> 	Are you sure? I thought I saw something in the doc about there being
> two methods for computing normals in isosurfaces and isoblobs and one of
> them looks a lot like what you described...

That would be the "normal on|off" feature...I don't know the details of 
the different methods, but "normal on" is supposed to be more accurate, 
though it can't be used with functions using noise3d() or atan2().

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